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Liquid-gas phase instabilities and droplet formation in nuclear reactions
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The thermodynamics and critical exponents of nuclear matter near the critical point of a liquid-gas phase transition are studied. We then investigate fluctuations near the critical point. One effect of a finite number of nucleons, as in nuclear reactions, is to wash out the first-order phase transition for several MeV below the critical temperature. This is manifested in the fact that there is a finite probability for the system to exist in the metastable or unstable regions of infinite matter. The phenomenological droplet model is applied to a wide range of recent data on fragment yields in the range $6<A<52$, and good fits are obtained. Heavy ion reactions are consistent with droplet formation in a supersaturated vapor, with supersaturation ratios up to 3.25. Proton-nucleus reactions are consistent with droplet formation in a saturated vapor.
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- Authors
- Goodman, A. L., Kapusta, J. I., & Mekjian, A. Z.
- Venue
- Physical Review C
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1984-09-01
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 851-865
- ISSN
- 0556-2813 (ISSN-L)
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- W2074601388
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- 183
- References
- 1
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- 6.41
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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